Kids book illustrations: best of the best.

Aww Teeny got my fave already (TSH). And the Dillons, obv. I stumbled across an exhibit of their work at the Central Bklyn Library (because I think they live in the borough?) last summer and LIKE WHOAH.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Seuss is such a given... but my favorite is : http://www.robbsbooks.com/seussthl.gif or possibly http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/64/Bartholomew_and_the_oobleck.jpg/180px-Bartholomew_and_the_oobleck.jpg

― remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

don freeman
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0670241334.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― TAO (daggerlee), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

my boy has an insane amount of books already thanks to an aunt with a connection at scholastic publishing, it's ridic

SMUGGO. Oh wait. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

I think she dumpster dives actually!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

im with teeny re: wild things

who else was creeped the bejesus out by this as a kidlet?(story and illustrations):

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ck4y-kwn/003.jpg

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9iby6GFlFtEjyQB7pKjzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NDgyNWN0BHNlYwNwcm9m/SIG=1311bvna0/EXP=1146938885/**http%3a//www.jafi.org.il/cnef/photos/photos_fichiers/pdc_2002/petit_nicolas.jpg

Jean-Jacques Sempé

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

I am named after http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15077/15077-h/images/jf03.jpg

― remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Roffle.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

You are related to Steve Gutenberg?

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

no pictures ;;

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060544244.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

OMG

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

I am named after http://aasdweb.com/MySignStoryTime/MySignBeatrixPotter/Mr.%20Jeremy%20Fisher/media/page%202.gif, rather.

― remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.eurodressage.com/images/news_varia_thelwell.gif

Norman Thelwell

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.childgraphics.com/posters/fairytales/thumbeline.jpg

http://www.teesdalehalls.co.uk/uploads/windinthewillows.jpg

http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/images/brown.jpg

i love good children's books illustrations

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://delponte.altervista.org/file/Immagini/Consigli/Libri/House%20with%20Clock%20in%20Its%20Walls/cover-house-01a.jpg

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

That's kind of cheating because it's E. Gorey, but I loved that book and loved the pics, too.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

henry darger

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

and of course, as mentioned on the other thread

http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/chris.holt/home.informal/bar/pictures/moi/gifts/bg.pooh.gif

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

arthur rackham:

http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/rackham5.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.askart.com/AskART/photos/ILL581999/19.jpg

Ludwig Bemelmans

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

and of course

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/Mumindalen2.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/3/0/0/13004/13004-h/images/g-43.png

Gelett Burgess

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Oops! That was the Goops.

http://mappa.mundi.net/locus/locus_009/oz1_big.jpg

W.W. Denslow

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah the oz illustrations are great.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/8884/z7wx.jpg

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/images/devilsstorybook.jpg

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Sir John Tenniel:
http://www.imsc.res.in/local/gallery/tenniel/alice1.gif

Antoine de Saint-Exupery:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156528207.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Heinrich Hoffmann:
http://www.uni-ulm.de/uniradio/Bilder/Struwwelpeter%20Kopie.jpg

― phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

ohmygod! I had totally forgotten about Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse! Totally one of my favourites. I have tears in my eyes now.
Corduroy, also.
obv xpost

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to say I have a major soft spot for this, but looking at it again, I think the illustrations, while appearing simple (to some, or relatively), are really kind of amazing.
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0753453320.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

my favorite book as a young one...

http://www.fiona.co.jp/images/PICTURE_BOOK/KINDERGARTEN/DRUMMER_HOFF.jpg
http://library.bhbl.neric.org/chmc/Drummer%20Hoff.jpg

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

my edition had a different title font and the (two color)inside illustrations are more impressive than the cover suggests

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 5 May 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

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Shirley Hughes!
http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/ash/exhibitions/images/dogger.gif

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/084317501X.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

Chris Wormell is fantastic. It's all woodcuts, isn't it. Second Lauren Child: she's ace.

Miroslav Sasek http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0789310627.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
and a more contemporary one: William Bee http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/1844280667.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― bham (bham), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

early gothness, Ruth Brown

http://images.ciao.com/iuk/images/products/normal/280/product-5643280.jpg

new cuteness, Sean Bryan

http://www.arcadepub.com/Resources/Titles/55970100328300/Images/55970100328300M.gif

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.blindchildrensfund.org/products/boooks/ZaZasBabyBrother.jpg

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't know Lucy Cousins did zebras. Is this a new one? I love Maisy.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 18 May 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

eight years pass...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OV8rLyBugOE/UzDc2b5OGVI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/Jtb4zJM082s/s1600/JudyS_RascalInCanoe.jpg

― they TRY to look like GOOD people (soref), Thursday, 8 January 2015 21:41 (ten years ago)

Nice thread, shame so much is broken.

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 8 January 2015 21:45 (ten years ago)

http://www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/provensens_aesop27.jpg

― they TRY to look like GOOD people (soref), Thursday, 8 January 2015 22:20 (ten years ago)

http://www.alephbet.com/pictures/22170_1.JPG

― they TRY to look like GOOD people (soref), Thursday, 8 January 2015 22:24 (ten years ago)

http://sedition.com/img/aesops/i062_th.jpg

― they TRY to look like GOOD people (soref), Thursday, 8 January 2015 22:27 (ten years ago)

https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6050/6367633677_fc018b889f_z.jpg

― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 8 January 2015 22:30 (ten years ago)

http://thumbs3.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/miGXPPioxSKyIL-5hfxN1-w.jpg

― they TRY to look like GOOD people (soref), Thursday, 8 January 2015 22:35 (ten years ago)

http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/bookwitch21/05-IMG_0005_zpsc32595d6.jpg

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 8 January 2015 22:39 (ten years ago)

^^^ Holling C. Holling, Paddle-to-the-Sea, 1941

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20141117200540/villains/images/9/94/OldDarkFrog.jpg

Arnold Lobel, Days With Frog and Toad], 1979

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 8 January 2015 22:42 (ten years ago)

http://www.russianartandbooks.com/russianart/images/items/300x1200/Ar00376.jpg

― they TRY to look like GOOD people (soref), Thursday, 8 January 2015 22:50 (ten years ago)

Malcolm Bird

http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/f5/fa/f5fac99784611bc636e544e6651434b41716b42.jpg

http://www.malcolm-bird.co.uk/s/cc_images/cache_11296542.jpg?t=1359797685

http://www.malcolm-bird.co.uk/s/cc_images/cache_10872795.jpg?t=1359369563

got so lost in his stuff as a kid (still do)

^from The Christmas Handbook, 1986, and The Witch's Handbook, 1987

― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 January 2015 22:50 (ten years ago)

he also did stuff like this for vanity fair in the 70s:

https://emmapeelpants.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/selfpossessed.jpg

― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Thursday, 8 January 2015 22:53 (ten years ago)

pls to include names of artists when posting pls

― contenderizer, Thursday, 8 January 2015 23:01 (ten years ago)

Peter Sis

http://web.pdx.edu/~cynthia8/TOCsullivan/HW3fourthings/assets/sis_lgtibet.jpg

― contenderizer, Thursday, 8 January 2015 23:13 (ten years ago)

Ed Emberley

http://www.frag-ment-ed.com/blog/uploaded_images/ed_emberly02-734259.jpg

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7210/6942444349_027654674f_z.jpg

― contenderizer, Thursday, 8 January 2015 23:20 (ten years ago)

Ugh, now this is really bugging me...there was a picture book (with a fairly elaborate, wordy story, not for little LITTLE kids) dealing with maybe animals living in like, the sewers or the other in-between spaces (clock towers? inside the walls of buildings?) in I would guess London, MAYBE Paris. Really really lavish illustrations, with things like scenes framed like section drawings sorta, so you could see stuff buried in the walls and the ground (dinosaur bones between rooms, that kind of thing).

It definitely had a narrative arc, and maybe something kind of skeevy and seamy was going on, criminals up to something, maybe a cop or detective animal that catches them...? I can't tell how much of this is really in the book and how much of it is garbled up with Danger Mouse which I recall watching a lot of around the same time, so let's say this must have come out sometime before 1992, say, and was likely a 1980s book.

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 8 January 2015 23:23 (ten years ago)

I guess I shoudl post to Let's help each other identify books we dimly remember reading as kids but it was the illustrations that really loomed large for me.

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 8 January 2015 23:24 (ten years ago)

Mark Alan Stamaty

http://www.thesuitcaselady.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/2.jpg

― contenderizer, Thursday, 8 January 2015 23:29 (ten years ago)

xp Suspect it was Peter Lippman's The Great Escape: or Sewer Story

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Au_abBsPaFk/U3DpnIOL8qI/AAAAAAAAAbo/yv6Ik43Ybys/s1600/DSCN1975.JPG

favorite of mine, too

― contenderizer, Thursday, 8 January 2015 23:33 (ten years ago)

Hrm, nope, fraid not though that looks quite pleasant. This was much more baroque, super dense illustrations, more realistic generally, and I would say probably vertical in format - closer to the size/presentation of Stinky Cheese Man or something like that.

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 8 January 2015 23:45 (ten years ago)

http://soifollowjulian.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/img_8695.jpg

― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Thursday, 8 January 2015 23:47 (ten years ago)

^excellent writing, as well

― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Thursday, 8 January 2015 23:52 (ten years ago)

Miroslav Sasek:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aEwSP8-KhI0/TcAYDeOvBhI/AAAAAAAACwQ/7atsXt75lAE/s1600/33.jpg

https://36.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0w89uyOyz1qkaoroo1_500.jpg

― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Thursday, 8 January 2015 23:55 (ten years ago)

re: Great Brain: Loved those, read every single one, can still recall major sequences from some of them, and yeah, the covers did a lot to me to set the tone.

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 8 January 2015 23:55 (ten years ago)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RvZBCOlQ7sw/Td9ZpVJl3qI/AAAAAAAAGds/IxHD51rWHXw/s1600/5+maple+hill.jpg

our animal friends at maple hill farm

― Bringing the mosh (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 9 January 2015 00:01 (ten years ago)

Yeah, I loved the Great Brain books, too. And Sasek. Speaking of cities, MP Robinson:

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/dc/f3/90/dcf3900606ab9a656d34d298184b66e5.jpg

Not really a "children's book", but i would have dug it as a kid.

― contenderizer, Friday, 9 January 2015 00:07 (ten years ago)

Arthur Ransome:

http://www.woodenboatfittings.com.au/ransome/ob.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91CxJuJ8VyL._SL1500_.jpg

http://mashadutoit.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/diving.jpg?w=535

― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Friday, 9 January 2015 00:13 (ten years ago)

^from Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of books, which I lost myself in at the age of eleven or so. Ransome's minimalist line drawings beautifully conveyed to me the feeling of ordinary kids who endow their surroundings with infinite potential for mystery and adventure.

― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Friday, 9 January 2015 00:19 (ten years ago)

re the Great Brain: one of the highlights of becoming a parent has been getting to read things like this, AGAIN, OUT LOUD, and sharing the enjoyment.

― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Friday, 9 January 2015 00:21 (ten years ago)

I did include the name of the artist - I think it may have gotten lost cause it was at the top.

― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Friday, 9 January 2015 00:49 (ten years ago)

― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Thursday, January 8, 2015 7:19 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow, otm. never seen these before but what a great description.

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 9 January 2015 00:53 (ten years ago)

I did include the name of the artist - I think it may have gotten lost cause it was at the top.

― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Thursday, January 8, 2015 4:49 PM (4 minutes ago)

oh i didn't mean you, roxy. was mostly addressed to soref.

― contenderizer, Friday, 9 January 2015 00:56 (ten years ago)

that city one, meanwhile, leads me of course to David Macaulay's Castle and its cousins, plus his later The Way Things Work, full of little cartoon mammoths in the margins, getting into trouble while the main drawings explained how the inclined plane and tokamak fusion reactors worked.

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 9 January 2015 00:58 (ten years ago)

Sadly, no images online of the introductory scene-setting on nuclear power, which had this solidly dreadful, gloomy quality.

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 9 January 2015 01:04 (ten years ago)

http://youthmuse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Miss-nelson.jpg

― the captain beefheart of personal hygiene (soda), Friday, 9 January 2015 01:11 (ten years ago)

E.H. Shepard

https://gizbar.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/156196_10202312008955731_366471146_n.jpg

kind of amazed he's gone unmentioned

― contenderizer, Friday, 9 January 2015 01:18 (ten years ago)

One of my favourites is Brian Lee, who did Ghost Train, Ghost Hunters and Ghost Pirate. Beautiful stuff, often had amazing holograms.
It's difficult finding his work because there are so many artists called Brian Lee. I once found his website but I think it disappeared.
http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/rarebo/30885.shtml

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 9 January 2015 01:40 (ten years ago)

Every now and then I go looking in the kids section of bookstores to see if there's anything good but I rarely see anything of interest. The good stuff is usually comic artists I'm already familiar with.
I'm not really able to say if these books have been neutered or sanitized but it doesn't seem a crazy assumption. I'd be surprised to see a new artist as morbid as Stephen Gammell.

50 Watts is a great site for this stuff, it followed after a site called Journey Round My Skull.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 9 January 2015 02:02 (ten years ago)

Barbara Cooney

http://www.carlemuseum.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/530.jpg

http://sanjuanparent.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Summer-Reading.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nsGARVJlSMg/UMrQjdC8oUI/AAAAAAAAhRE/-gdUhpul_h8/s1600/manwhodidn

I like how her stuff looks like engravings.
She illustrated the Ox-Cat Man and lots of other popular books, and was extremely prolific. Feel like 50% of the books I read as a kid were illustrated by her. Even textbooks!

― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Thursday, 22 January 2015 16:32 (ten years ago)

She also had awesome personal style, esp w/r/t hair.

http://www.mainecoastbookshop.com/ckuploads/images/barbaraCooney.php_20130607_BCP.jpg

― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Thursday, 22 January 2015 16:33 (ten years ago)

roxy there's a Barbara Cooney about Emily Dickinson iirc--and one of Eleanor Roosevelt too, now that I think of it! Applause all 'round.

― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Thursday, 22 January 2015 16:36 (ten years ago)

*picturebook

― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Thursday, 22 January 2015 16:36 (ten years ago)

Thanx 2 thread for introducing me to cooney and reminding me about sasek

― cardamon, Friday, 23 January 2015 12:33 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

R A Brandt

https://www.fulltable.com/vts/aoi/b/brandt/grimm/04.jpg

http://media.vam.ac.uk/media/thira/collection_images/2008BV/2008BV3777.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nnhVRx6RxoQ/UtQpw1JerLI/AAAAAAAAD_U/5_wGSgUoYoY/s640/S35C-414011317030-page-0.jpg

― soref, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 13:48 (nine years ago)

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